Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if Godard has sprung to life before us. And that uncanny quality extends to the whole movie,

Zoey Deutch stars as Jean Seberg alongside a cast of French unknowns in a behind-the-scenes look at the iconoclastic auteur directing his New Wave masterpiece.

Nouvelle Vague is both a classic Richard Linklater hangout movie and an ode to the French New Wave, simplistic in nature and charming nonetheless.